The sad, empty CVS in Columbia Heights is barren. The company is justifiably alarmed. But it must be part of the solution.
Chia seeds, milled flax, monk fruit sweetener and fire logs are there for you at the Columbia Heights CVS.
“Thieves,” said Rodney Demetrius, a disgruntled CVS customer who sells roses at his small stand across the street and stopped shopping at the store about three months ago because there’s little left to buy and items aren’t being restocked. “They took everything.”“It’s enough,” one of the workers said. Indeed. No real rush on milled flax, as far as I could tell.
It’s “a national crisis, hurting businesses in every state and the communities they serve,” alarmed Neil Bradley, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s chief policy officer, in a video message calling on Congress to help end the scourge.“For every billion dollars in sales,” he said, big retailers lose $700,000 to retail theft.
For starters, tracing retail losses — “shrink” — is tough, and pinning everything on shoplifters is inaccurate. Some of the losses come from employee theft, damage or mistakes.Even the police have a hard time identifying exactly how much crime is being committed by sticky-fingered shoppers. In D.C., property crimes arecompared to the same time last year, but that number is goosed by the jump in car thefts.
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